Installing Touchkit Drivers

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: Installing Touchkit Drivers
started by: kiwited

Posted by kiwited on July 14 2006,13:21

Not sure if this is the correct forum. Inspired by John's Toy, my son set out to build a tiny mouseless, keyboardless
computer for his school science project. It goes well, except we cannot install the Touchkit drivers for the USB touchscreen.

There was a cd supplied with the screen with a variety of drivers for a range of operating systems. I chose Mandrake Linux to try and install. There is a sharutils rpm file and three setup files.

Attempting to run the rpm file brings an error message about "error reading rpm header" while the setup files have an error "cannot execute binary file"

I downloaded a more recent (and apparently more relevant) gzipped tarball from eGalax ( < http://www.egalax.com.tw/eg/drivers.htm#deb > ), who seem to be the manufacturers. This later file is for Debian Linux.

I downloaded the file into a download directory I created, double clicked in emelfm and the file was extracted into temporary directories in tmp. So far, so good.

I located the required directory and typed "make new" as called for and get an error message "sudo: make: command not found"

And here my scanty knowledge of Linux runs out.

I attempted to contact support at eGalax but that part of the web site seemed to not be working.

Motherboard Via Mini-ITX Epia TC-6000E
Transcend igig IDE flash module
256 meg ram
TM-868 8" USB touchscreen
DSL 3.01 HD install

Thanks for any help

Ted

Posted by roberts on July 14 2006,17:39

Might try to peruse the testing area of the repository.
There is a very recent and very complete development extension, gcc1-with-libs.dsl, that will provide the make, compiler, and development libraries that should get you started.

Posted by kerry on July 14 2006,21:09

you don't use make with a deb file. enable apt, then use> sudo dpkg -i (name of ).deb in terminal, hopefully it dosen't have to many dependency's

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 15 2006,19:35

kerry: He didn't have a .deb file.